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40 Cards in this Set
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What is the definition of naturalistic? |
If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience |
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Our modern ideas about art carry with them ideas about... |
the artist, the audience |
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What are the role artists fill? |
to create places for some human purpose and extraordinary versions of ordinary objects to record and commemorate, to give tangible form to the unknown. |
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What did you learn about Jeff Wall's "A sudden Gust of Wind?" |
It shows him thinking of Hokusai and that photography has taken over from painting the project of depicting modern life. |
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Themes in Art found in your textbook |
The Sacred realm, Politics and the social order, stories and histories, looking out ward the here and now, looking inward, the human experience, inventions and fantasy, the natural world. |
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What do these have in common? Saint-Chappelle, the great Mosque at Cordoba, and the Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan
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designed as a place for worship or meditation |
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Relate theories regarding the purpose of stonehenge |
graveyard, religious complex, ley lines, or stargate |
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We know about Van Gogh's life dues to this fact |
he wrote many letters to his friends and relatives |
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The Sculpture Shiva Natarja represents |
giving tangible form to the unknown |
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Methods used by prehistoric paints |
Animal fats and pigments were were mixed together, reed brushes were used, powdered pigments were blown into hollow reeds |
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The pyramids at Giza in Egypt were built as |
tombs |
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Hieronymus Bosh best known work of art |
The Garden of Earthly Delights |
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When discussing a work of art's ________ we are discussing the size, shape, material, color and composition |
form |
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What is the 'Pieta' in Christian art? |
Mary ( the mother of Jesus) holding her son after he was taken down from the cross. |
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To discover why the Sculptor of the "aMida Nyoral" depicted the subject with elongated earlobes, specific hang gestures, and a bun atop his head, requires the use of |
iconography |
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Art created by non professionals is referred to with these labels |
folk art, naive are, intuitive art, and outsider art |
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Maya Lin major work is |
Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
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Things you know about the drawings and paintings found in Chavet Cave |
created over 32000 years ago, prehistoric methods were used, over 3 hundred animal pictures were found, pictures were drawn, carved or sprayed |
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Frida Kahlo used her own lifes event as her subject |
street car accident, self portrait with monkeys |
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What is learned from the inscription in the painting white clouds over Xiao and xiang by Wang Jian |
his painting was inspired by a work by the earlier 14th century master Zhao Menfu, who in turned admired Dong Yaun, a 19th century painter known for a view of this same region |
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The Rocky mountains, Landers peak and atmospheric perspective |
is used to maximum effect in the work |
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What are some of the ways line is used in art? |
boundaries between forms Direction and motion shadows and highlight spatial depth on flat surfaces |
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Relate the ways the vanishing point in Leonardo da Vincis the last supper |
It is at the exact center of the picture, just behind the head of the figure of Jesus, on the horizon line. |
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Mixing two primary colors produces a _______ color |
secondary |
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Which artist uses light itself as the main material and who work increases our awareness of light as presence in the world? |
James Turrell |
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The 18th century India painting of Maharan Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats utilizes the two most basic visual cues for implying depth on a flat surface. What are they? |
position and overlap |
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The path of a moving point is a |
line |
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The architect Le Corbusier designed the Modular what was its purpose |
a tool he used for calculating human proportions based upon the golden section |
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Another term of asymmetrical balance is |
informal balance |
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Artists will often add ______ to provide interest |
variety |
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The use of scale to indicate relative importance is known as ________ scale |
Hierarchical scale |
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the design principle of balance functions in these ways |
encourage our active participation help communicate a work's moods lead our eyes around a work help communicate a works meaning |
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Claesoldon burg and Coosje van Bruggen create shock value through use of |
Scale and proportion in the Sculpture Plantoir |
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Symmetrical balance is used to express |
order, harmony, and authority |
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The implied center of gravity is in a 2d work that is balanced symmetrically is where |
along the vertical axis down the center of the composition |
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Pablo Picasso's girl before a mirror explores the traditional theme of |
relieved symmetry |
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In a two-dimensional work with asymmetrical balance, the appearance of balance is achieved how? |
distributing visual weight accordingly |
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What medium is used in Vonne Jacquette's 'Three Mile Island, Night. |
Charcoal on laminated tracing paper |
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Name some other materials used by artists to draw upon ( other than paper )? |
Silk, fired clay, cave walls, papyrus |
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Pope Julius II employed which two Italian Renaissance artists to paint frescoes for him? |
Michaelangelo and Raphael |